Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: binary: high performance, pure binary serialisation

Hi Conrad,

If the data header stores the alignment/size/endianness, then there's no reason for the data to be unportable. The normal get* instances (not get*host) could suffice for reading.

That requires the stream to have a header. Which means that any arbitrary slice within the ByteString is not equal - the first one contains essential information which isn't available anywhere else. It seems like a lot of complexity, defining multiple parameterised file types, when the simple case is probably neater and cheaper in terms of both runtime and developer time. Thanks Neil